St. Teresa of Calcutta, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity (MC) congregation, had great devotion to Mother Mary — as witnessed by the fact that she chose Oct. 7 as the date that she ...

Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity exemplify a pure, selfless contribution to the brotherhood of man, which is incumbent on each of us who has accumulated something to offer.

Pope Francis paves way for Mother Teresa to be canonized 03:28. Conroy volunteered at Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, which offered end-of-life care to the poorest in Kolkata, India.

Mother Teresa started the Missionaries of Charity order in Kolkata in 1950 and it later set up hundreds of shelters that care for some of the world's neediest, people she described as "the poorest ...

A nun belonging to the global Missionaries of Charity tends to a patient at Nirmal Hriday, a home for the destitute and old, founded by Mother Teresa ahead of Mother Teresa's canonisation ceremony ...

A tapestry depicting Mother Teresa at Saint Peter's Basilica during a mass for her canonization in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican on September 4, 2016. Her Missionaries of Charity is under ...

Clockwise from left: Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary with the Missionaries of Charity, who lived most of her life in India, holds a prayer candle on Aug. 10, 1994.

Mother Teresa's charity in India is blocked from receiving foreign funding The Indian government says it has refused to renew a permit that allows the Missionaries of Charity to use foreign funds ...

A Christian nun plays with an orphan at Shishu Bhavan, an orphanage for discarded babies run by The Missionaries of Charity, on the eve of Mother Teresa's Death Anniversary in Ahmedabad on ...

Mother Teresa started the Missionaries of Charity order in Kolkata in 1950 and it later set up hundreds of shelters that care for some of the world's neediest, people she described as "the poorest ...

Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, arrived in India as a young nun in 1929. She established the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 in Kolkata, then known as Calcutta.